Dec 15, 2015

As I mentioned in my previous post, I just came off a six week course instructing digital journalism at the University of King's College. My inbox is full of links to handy reading. So I thought I'd do a brain dump here. Most of these links never made it into my course material. But I took a look at them and saved them for later, thinking they'd be handy. So here they are for public consumption.

A teaser compilation from BrainPickings of journalist Nate Silver's book on the best infographics of 2014. Personally, I find those infographics very interesting to look at but I wonder about their ease of use. They seem quite difficult to read and that's pretty key in making something useful.

A couple of lists from Poynter of digital tools that were useful in 2013, more for 2014, and more for 2015. I have not used all of these, and some of them like Popcorn Maker are no longer being supported, but eventually I hope to get around to trying them.

I once had the pleasure of chatting with Craig Silverman when he was involved with OpenFile Halifax. He's part of a group of journalists who published the Verification Handbook, a guide to sussing out fakes online.